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What Is The Condition Of Healthcare In America Today?
By Walt "dr health" Edwards

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We are losing our global competitiveness as an industrialized nation. How can health care costs make an entire nation uncompetitive? Consider the fact that General Motors spends $1,500 per car health care costs alone. That's a huge financial burden that simply doesn't exist in countries like Japan or Korea where medicine is substantially more affordable for a number of reasons, including the fact that those nations have no FDA protecting a national drug monopoly.

In Taiwan, working citizens are covered for merely $20 per month (in U.S. dollars). That $20 per month pays everything: Dental, maternity, prescription drugs, surgical procedures, imaging tests, you name it. Co-pays are stunningly affordable too. A $50 cash co-pay gets a citizen a collection of prescription drugs that easily exceed $1,000 in retail cost here in the U.S.

Across corporate America, companies are finding that paying the extravagant health care costs of U.S. workers is driving them flat out of business. This includes Curry County and any other City or school district that pay ALL the medical insurance for their employees. Due to the nature of the increasingly global marketplace, U.S. businesses are forced to cut costs or nosedive into bankruptcy. And part of the cost-cutting equation involves shifting jobs overseas to countries where not only are the wages lower, but the health care costs are substantially lower as well. The other choice is to reduce the number of employees.

Similar cost efficiencies are present throughout Southeast Asia, in countries like Thailand, South Korea, China, Malaysia and even the Philippines. In fact, health care is so darned affordable in these countries that hoards of Americans are fleeing the U.S. medical system on "medical tourism" trips that include airfare, a five-star hotel, a grand tour of a fascinating nation and a complete surgical procedure ... all for a fraction of the cost of the surgical procedure alone in the United States.

We are being brainwashed, by various media sources, into believing the U.S. has the best healthcare money can buy. It certainly is the most costly when it comes to medical services, prescription drugs, surgical procedures or medical tests.

For those readers who believe this myth, please consider the following:

* More people have diabetes than ever before.

* More people have heart disease than ever before.

* More people have multiple sclerosis, lupus, muscular dystrophy, asthma, migraine headaches, joint, neck and back pain than ever before.

* More people have acid reflux, ulcers, and stomach problems than ever before.

* More kids have attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity than ever before.

* More people get cancer than ever before.

* More people suffer from depression, stress and anxiety than ever before.

* More people suffer from allergies, arthritis, constipation, fibromyhalgia, cold sores, and herpetic breakouts than ever before.

* More men suffer from prostate problems than ever before.

While you ponder these items, you may be surprised to know...

* There are more people going to visit doctors than ever before.

* There are more people getting diagnostic testing, such as blood tests and x-rays, than ever before.

* More people are taking nonprescription and prescription drugs than ever before.

* Not only are more people taking drugs, but each person is taking more drugs than ever before, including school age children.

* There are more surgeries performed than ever before.

* More people are dying each year from prescription drugs than ever before.

There should be no doubt in the readeršs mind that standard medical science is failing. More people are getting medical treatment, taking more drugs, having more diagnostic testing and having more surgeries than ever before in history. Yet more people are getting sick than ever before in history.

JAMA, the Journal of American Medical Association reports that 70 to 85 percent of all disease, including cancer, is directly related to diet and lifestyle. It would seem logical and practical to consider the practice of prevention to improve this condition.

Americans spend over $2 trillion a year on healthcare, yet the American infant mortality rate is higher than twenty other developed countries. People in thirty other countries live longer than Americans, yet Americans consume over half of all the drugs manufactured in the world. As long as the BIG money is to be made in the treatment of sickness Western medicine and the drug industry will continue to suppress all -natural inexpensive prevention methods and cures.

Thought For The Day: If the body is sick, the mind worries and the spirit grieves; if the mind is sick, the body and spirit will suffer from its confusion; if the spirit is sick, there will be no will to care for the body or mind. J.R. Worsley